I wish we could be decent to each other.

How I wish everyone had decent work! It is essential for human dignity.

— Pope Francis

takes a devil to make a decent angel.

— Tom Spanbauer

[Religion] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from wrong, we…

— Christopher Hitchens

It is something that most parents hope for in life: That their children will be moderately successful, polite, decent human beings. Anything on top…

— Jerry Kramer

Every New Yorker spends a certain amount of nervous energy thinking, "How can I afford to stay here? What do I have to sell…

— Sharon Zukin

The recurrent laryngeal nerve - which runs from the head to the voice box - goes all the way down into the chest, loops…

— Richard Dawkins

The 'key-log' which must be moved to release the evolutionary process for an ethic is simply this: quit thinking about decent land-use as solely…

— Land ethic

Music and the arts feed our souls, but a decent wage puts food on the table. Musicians, fans of music, and grassroots political organizations…

— Tom Morello

If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage

— Haruki Murakami

For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble…

— H. L. Mencken

Sometimes the challenge of beating the jet lag and getting a decent sleep can be as hard to solve as finding the right setup…

— Romain Grosjean

You weren't a decent man and you didn't do your best. We none of us were and none of us did.

— Anonymous

As long as I can sing halfway decent, I'd rather sing than act. There's nothing like being in good voice, feeling good, having good…

— Howard Keel

Peace is an ongoing process. It begins with the first step and it does not end. We, all of us alive today, are the…

— David Krieger

Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it, nor too precisely in it; what custom hath civilized is become…

— Francis Quarles